CRITICAL THINKING AND CONTINUOUS LEARNING

 

 CRITICAL THINKING AND CONTINUOUS LEARNING

 

Critical thinking skills are domain-general thinking skills. The ability to think clearly and rationally is important whatever is choose to do. Critical thinking skills teach a variety of skills that can be applied to any situation in life that calls for reflection, analysis and planning.

Five Critical thinking skills are,

1)Reasoning

2)Analyzing

3)Evaluating

4)  Decision Making

5)  Problem Solving

It is a valuable skill for students to master. To think is to have or form an idea in the mind. Thinking is the act of using one’s mind to produce thoughts. It is great for human beings. However, many people do not bother to use it. Such people remain at the bottom of life. If an individual understands the importance of thinking it benefits the growth of a person. It will do a world of good for him. To control your anger, you cloud count from one to ten or take a deep. Critical thinking skills are domain-general thinking skills. The ability to think clearly and rationally is important whatever is choose to do. Critical thinking skills teach a variety of skills that can be applied to any situation in life that calls for reflection, analysis and planning.

Five Critical thinking skills are,

1.      Reasoning

2.     Analyzing

3.     Evaluating

4.     Decision Making

5.     Problem Solving

It is a valuable skill for students to master.

To think is to have or form an idea in the mind. Thinking is the act of using one’s mind to produce thoughts. It is great for human beings. However, many people do not bother to use it. Such people remain at the bottom of life. If an individual understands the importance of thinking it benefits the growth of a person. It will do a world of good for him. To control your anger, you cloud count from one to ten, or take a deep breath, or drink some water, or look at a tree or bird nearby, or remember your mother or God, or say some prayer and then relax for a few minutes. To control emotions means to remain calm and quiet even when you are provoked or your own benefits are questioned by others. Only then can you be objective. If you lose your temper, you become angry and abuse others. Such behavior affects your interpersonal relationship. A problem or a situation or a person usually has different points of view.

When you look at things from various points of view, you are able to have a better understanding of the matter. Before doing anything or deciding something, it is good to Think Critically. Cost-benefit analysis is a common activity you can try what is the cost and what is the benefit? If the benefit is more, you do it. If the cost is more, you stop the activity .when you board a crowded bus, you have lots of difficulties.

Many passengers board the bus along with you. There is only one conductor. He has to collect money from all passengers. If you think from the conductor’s point of view, you will take every step to get the ticket on your own.

Another aspect of critical thinking skills on the job is those with this ability to manage their time wisely. They know how to prioritize duties and can judge the rate of success return on time spent on various tasks, so they spend more time on those things with a high return rate.

Examples of critical thinking in everyday life abound in all parts of life. A triage nurse will use it to prioritize patients for treatment and a plumber uses it when he decides what materials he needs to complete a job. A store manager uses it after he gets customers’ feedback to make changes in his shop and an attorney uses it to create a winning courtroom strategy.

Everyone uses critical thinking at some point. Small business owners need it to figure out how to increase costs, keep employees happy or reduce costs and a soccer coach uses it to create a tactic to maximize his team’s strengths and minimize weaknesses. However, some of the most useful ways all of us use critical thinking is with others in our lives. That includes our families, our friends, and our co-workers.

One perfect example is when a spouse comes home after a hard day at work. Someone with critical thinking skills immediately assesses the situation to see how they can help. They stand back for a few moments to gather information, to hear what their spouse has to say.

Then, they may suggest a solution to the problem or even propose the two of them do something fun to take their minds off it. The suggestions rely solely on the fact-gathering and knowledge of their spouse’s personality and a judgment of the situation. That is critical thinking.

Parents are some of the best critical thinkers on the planet because they have to access their children’s behaviour and make judgments on how to handle it all day long, every day. The process is the same as any other in the critical thinking spectrum.

Literally, everyone can benefit from critical thinking because the need for it is all around us. In a philosophical paper Peter Facione makes a strong case that critical thinking skills are needed by everyone, in all societies who value safety, justice, and a host of other positive values:

“Considered as a form of thoughtful judgment or reflective decision-making, in a very real sense critical thinking is pervasive. There is hardly a time or a place where it would not seem to be of potential value. As long as people have purposes in mind and wish to judge how to accomplish them, as long as people wonder what is true and what is not, what to believe and what to reject, strong critical thinking is going to be necessary.”

The internet is a great place to practice critical thinking since readers are constantly inundated with information and others' viewpoints.